ZM's Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley - Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley's Podcast - 12th April 2023

Episode Date: April 11, 2023

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Thank you, Sam. Good morning. Welcome to the show, Fletch, Fawn and Hayley. It's two minutes past six. Look who's back. Good morning. Oh, good lord. Oh, good lord. Is that too loud? No, it's stunning. Give me a level check. Two, two, two, one, two.

Very air-con-y in your lounge. Yeah, but what? It's our Scandinavian minimalist hardwood walls and giant glass door behind me. Yeah, it is, isn't it? Well, we didn't design our house to be a radio studio, Fletch. I'm sorry that that's so inconvenient for you. Well, you should have.

You should have known. You needed to carpet the walls. When Sade wakes up, I'll be sure to ask him why we didn't carpet everything. Oh, God, remember when people used to carpet walls? Or people used to carpet, like, bathrooms?

Oh, my God. Wet. Yuck. What? My grandparents had a carpeted bathroom growing up. Same. Yuck. So weird.

So wet. No one was thinking. Well, they just wanted to get out of the shower and you've got a nice, soft, you know, underfoot. But they mostly had baths then, like, in the 70s when they were doing that. Yeah. And just an excessive amount of, I don't remember an extraction fan in that bathroom. Oh God, no, no, there was a small

window. Oh, damp carpet. Vaughn, how are you feeling? I'm feeling better today. Today's the best I've felt. Well, you would never have guessed on Thursday, before the long weekend, the energy that I was putting into the long weekend group too, I was, I had the COVID virus on board.

It juiced you. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And we've been testing every day since and we haven't picked it up. My wife hasn't. Sade hasn't got it. That's wild. You've been in the same bed. We've been sharing our marital bed. Have you been kissing? Like kissing? Well, when I first tested positive, she said

you might as well give me the smirch and give it to me. Yeah. When she said give it to me, I thought she meant something else. You went the whole way. Right. But I was like. But not since. But no, we've been sharing a bed and stuff and living in a house.

As you can see, no carpet here. Yeah. The virus, of course, just bounces off the hard walls and windows just like the sound of my voice does. Yeah. And she still hasn't got it. Wow. Our oldest daughter bought it home from the poorly aerated school disco,

but our youngest still hasn't got it. Wow. And do you still have taste and smell? Yeah, I do. So I've never lost my taste and smell. Last time I had it, I didn't either. In fact, I think my smell's heightened because I can smell myself. I think I smell different when I have COVID.

You probably just haven't showered. That could be it. I've definitely showered. Jump in the shower, babe. I smell okay this morning, but yeah, maybe that's a sign it's wearing off. We've got the top six coming up. Tupperware in the news. What a classic.

Tupperware have said they've suffered a 50% loss of sales in recent times. And they said this could be the end of Tupperware. We could be, you know, pulling the plug on the Tupperware. So I've got the top six things we'll miss about Tupperware. Is Tupperware the sort of non-contact fighting? It's Brazilian, I think. It started out as a fitness trend. I think it is Brazilian.

Yeah, it is. You're tapuare. Yeah, I'm so looking forward to this top six. It's coming up next on the show are some news yesterday, some surprising news. Straight from prison. Fresh from prison, a new festival is on its way. Play.

ZM's Fletchvorn and Hayley. I reckon this is one of my favourite documentaries I've watched in a long time. The modern doco. Fire, the greatest party that never happened. Now, you'll remember this was about the fire festival that was supposed to take place on, was it Pablo Escobar's Private Island? And it was a festival full of hype. Ja Rule.

Yes. He was the face of it. One of the, was it Kendall Jenner? Kendall and some models went. A whole lot of models got involved. Well, they were all dragged into it because they advertised it, right? Yeah. And then afterwards it was kind of a lesson, excuse me, brain fog,

a lesson in just chucking your name at anything for a bit of cash. Yeah, because they went and did like, all these models went and did like a big photo shoot, video thing, like promoting it. And then the worst thing was like, everything was falling apart from the festival. And then the festival went ahead and all the attendees turned up on this private island

and nothing was ready for them. The VIPs got their ham sandwich. Got their rotten ham sandwich. It was a brilliant docker. And the accommodation that was like the disaster relief, like white tents. Yes! It was so bad.

Anyway, and then the guy who organised it, Billy McFarland, he went to prison because he owed, I think he still owes, about $40 million to his investors. Oh, wow. Okay. For the festival that never went ahead. Because everybody bought into it, didn't they? Well, because everyone was saying, pull, like, pull it.

It's not going to happen. You've got to cancel it. And he was like, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. Oh, my God. Yeah, I'm going to watch the documentary again. The true hero was Andy King. I still follow him on Instagram. He was the guy that was told to go and get bottles of water and he's like,

how am I going to get bottles of water? And he's like, you do what it takes. And he was, remember that guy? Oh my god, yes. He's down there and... And he might have done a little fellatio. Yes. As a heterosexual man? That's what Vaughan was. No, no, no.

He was a homosexual. He was a homosexual, yeah. Slightly more palatable, but still. I mean, we've all done worse for less. Oh, 100% Vaughan. Anyway, so Billy McFarland, that's his name, isn't it? Yes, Billy McFarland has been released from prison, even though he still owes these people all this money.

Right. He was released just last month. He has announced that Fyre Festival 2 is going to take place. Of course he has. So he's said it like, it's all going to go ahead, he's learnt, he's

got better preparations, and everyone's like, well, give us some details. He's like, well, I don't know. That's how I like my details. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Or the old, I'll worry about that, eh? Yeah.

What did I worry about that? Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's a me problem. And then, so now everyone's like, dude, what kind of artists, like Ja Rule, right?

Like that was so cool and he was like hyping it up. And what kind of artist is going to jump onto this festival and be like, sure, I'll perform? No one. What kind of idiot is going to buy a ticket to this festival? Because people paid lots of money for it. Yeah, they did.

All these YouTubers and stuff. He said it's finally happening. So watch this space. You'll hear a huge ZM Presents I don't know ZM Presents And then we'll just We'd be

Fletch would be crazy Not to get on board In the early stage man This is where it's This is where it's best To get on board You're right Vaughn This is one hell of a

Business opportunity I don't know about that Hell of an opportunity I don't know about that guys Oh my god Play ZM's Fletch, Vaughn and Hayley A woman on TikTok

Anna A woman allowed on TikTok? Some of them are, yes I think the rule's been lifted, yeah Yeah, the rule's been lifted So they're on there Yeah, I'm gonna get on there and talk about periods I tried to stop that

Because I don't think it's the right place for a woman Where do you think is the right place for a woman? Oh, just a nice quiet area without filth, you know, like a sort of a conservative household personally, a church. Right, sort of some sort of a kitchen. No, no, no, no, I'm very progressive. Does it sound like it?

Yeah, I'm a super progressive conservative. So this woman filmed a TikTok, she was sitting in her car. She said, I'm literally in the car waiting to be exactly 8 o'clock so I can walk into my job because I start work at 8. And that means I'm not going to leave. I'm going to leave at exactly the right time I'm supposed to. And so her whole thing is, and she goes on to explain,

she walks in exactly at 8 o'clock. But she's just wasting her time sitting in the car. Yeah, but she'd rather sit in the car than give work a minute more than she has to. No, but you don't have to go into work and work. When I used to have a proper job, this isn't really a real job. You'd just go in and you'd just like faff about for a bit. Make some toast. Yeah, but she's saying that you can do that and then sometimes you might be pulled into work early.

Or you might just be like, well, I'm here. I'll start now. And then they get a freebie. Yeah, and so this is kind of, yeah, so people were like kind of jumping on board saying, I totally agree with this. I love this. And other people are like, get out of your car.

You're being a bit stupid. Yeah. This is sort of like, because we've talked about quiet quitting or minimal effort Mondays or whatever, where you just go like, what is my job? I'll do that and no more. And I will not extend myself above that. I won't stay any longer.

That's what I'll do. And I feel like those are the kind of people that would get passed over for a promotion. Yeah, totally. Yeah. Totally. Yeah. Totally. Because they're like minimal effort. What would you say is the minimal amount that we can do?

Play songs and introduce, say, who just sung the last song. Yeah. It was Doja Cat. See, I've been doing it for the last 15 seconds. I was just looking. Yeah, right. But you're still here. You've got headphones and a microphone. Yeah, but I was just looking. I was just watching. Yeah. right, but you're still here. You've got headphones and a microphone.

Yeah, but I was just looking. I was just watching. Yeah. Yeah, okay. Well, should we give that a go? I was thinking, I was thinking, it had nothing to do with the show.

I was thinking about how Queen Street in Auckland used to be a creek. Vaughan, I'm just going to stop you there because you're being quite entertaining. Yeah, people are,

well, I've piqued people's interest, haven't I? And they can't be right, Vaughan. Wait, there used to be down Queen Street in Auckland, there used to be a river dude i said my dude dude one and dude how do you know about this uh well i've been sick for a while and i've just been reading weird queen street used to be a creek even how did you get on to this fact uh i think think on Reddit there was a subreddit. Someone posted on the Christchurch subreddit,

tell me an interesting fact about Christchurch that seems like it's made up. Do you have any? Fascinating facts about Christchurch. I like that. What? It's so flat that the floor of the cathedral is 20 foot below sea level or around sea level, like insanely flat. Right. Christ, Josh.

And there was all this one, they planned to have a canal that ran from the sea all the way into the centre of town. Oh, that would be fun. That could have done the punting all the way up. Could have punted. Well, it was more of a, you'd have to punt around sort of small cargo ships and ferries. Oh, they were going to make like a port. Yeah, yeah, like an inland port.

What else did they have about Christchurch that aren't, like if you stand at one certain point, you can see some like record amount for an urban setting in a straight line because of how flat and straight it is. Oh, yeah, that makes sense. Uninterrupted view. Yeah. So then I guess Auckland wanted to copy

and like what was a fact about Auckland or what was an interesting thing about Auckland that you didn't know? And one of them was that Queen Street used to be a river or a creek and it used to start at the top and obviously that's how water works. It goes downhill. Oh my God. Wait, hang on.

Go deeper into that. This creek's never started at the bottom although that would have been a very interesting fact. This creek starts. Hold on, that's one about Littleton. One about the Christchurch. There was a specific place to park on the street in Littleton and it was all like an illusion

but if you parked your car, it looked like it was rolling uphill. Oh, okay. But it wasn't. It was like downhill. God, you have been locked up and bored at home, haven't you? Dude, I've been locked up. He sounds like a rambling sort of homeless man. And, God, you wait until I've been doing my own research

about COVID vaccines too, but we can talk about that next if you want. Oh, no. The creek used to run down queen street yeah and this guy um it sounds like a joke but i think his name was ligar liga lagar he's on the medication he's on the kind of medication he turned it into a he he turned it into like a canal and first of all like a like a creek and then he was like oh we actually want to build a road here so did the whole top over it as well and then just paved over it. They paved

Paradise and put up a parking lot quite literally. They literally did. They literally did and yeah it was just I don't know I've been reading a lot and apparently if you go below the Civic you can still see the creek. What? Because the Civic was deep. Now we're going to need a behind the scenes tour of the Civic. Is there a door down there?

In the basement. There'd be rats. It'd be man camp. Really camp. Ninja turtles. Yeah. Play ZDM's Fletchford and Hayley. Blah, blah, blah.

Blah, blah, blah, blah. This is the Top Six. Hello there. Today's the top six. What? Just your rumbly little hot voice. Today's top six dealing with the fact that Tupperware may be tapping out. Or Tapperware.

Nope. No. It had all the right ingredients there, didn't it? It did. It did. It did. But then I put in too much baking soda and it over did it. Did it, we talk about this, what, last

year sometime, they pulled out of New Zealand or they went online only or? Yeah, I think they stopped doing their Tupperware parties. Oh, right, because they've warned that after 77 years they could go out of business. Shares have drastically fallen

to a huge low. Looking at that low, I'm surprised I haven't invested on that in my shares, because that's how most of mine look. I get an email from Sharesies weekly saying your auto investors failed. Oh.

That's been happening for about three months. Right. And then it should follow up with your Uru Invest failed and it's actually saved you money because the thing you would have invested in is now worth nothing. I know, I was like, I'm happy to just let that lapse. So the poor performance follows a filing issued by the American company last week

that warned there was substantial doubt and ongoing concern regarding its ability to continue as a business despite dominating the homeware market for decades. We all grew up with Tupperware, didn't we? Oh, my God, yeah. I've got some of my nana's vintage Tupperware. It's like orange with a brown lid. The little round ones.

And so the decline over recent years has put down in America to competition from Rubbermaid, Glad, Pyrex. We've all got Pyrex dishes, don't we? We've all got a Pyrex jug. Have you ever dropped a Pyrex? You've got Pyrex's jugs. I would have thought there were jugs in that glass

you could put anywhere. No, they do lidded stuff as well. Vaughn. Vaughn, they do lidded stuff. They do lidded stuff. I think we might have one of those. Is it like a soft grey rubbery lid with a...

It may be. Yes, it may be. I'm at home. I could go check the drawer straight after this top sucks. Stand by. Doesn't anyone have Pyrex? I'm a Sistema girl, and I know that they've come a long way since the blue Sistemas

because they've now got the black and grey ones. And they don't leak. They've got like a little sucky lid. It's a New Zealand company. Oh, my God. They're so good. They're so good. The old blue Sistema, I'm sorry, but it couldn't be trusted with a coleslaw. The ring. Oh, my God, they're so good. They're so good. The old blister steamer, I'm sorry,

but it couldn't be trusted with a coleslaw. The ring. No, it'll leak. The ring would always sort of fall out. Yeah. It'll leak, but you're right. They have come a long way. Well, I've got the top six things we'll miss about Tupperware

for today's top six. And number six on the list, when it sealed too good. Yeah. Almost couldn't get it open. You couldn't get it off. You just couldn't get it off off Even in the one little bit around You described your Nana's old round one with the push on lid

and it would have had the the little up and down You were also kind of a weak child though, weren't you? Very weak in the fingers For a farmer's boy How embarrassing It was the secret shame of my family.

Old weak fingers. But I tell you what, they're as strong as now, these fingers. Yeah. But when it's too good and you just couldn't get it off and you get your nail and it would just be like... Snap. And afterwards you'd have that white mark across your fingers and your fingers would hurt.

Little weak fingers, they used to say. Little weak fingered, little... There's some therapy in there, I think. Number five on the list of the top six things we'll miss about Tupperware. The bright orange cordial jug with the suction lid. Dude, yes. Dude, the suction... And you'd push it right on and then you'd have to go...

And push the button in to get the lid off. You could buy a bunch of those at like a secondhand store, right? Yeah, man. Trade retro. I think it depends where you are buying it because metro centres, they know what they've got. They know what they've got. They'd be charging $50. Oh, my God.

Look at these. Yes. Good. Have you seen that one? Yeah. Yep. Yep. How much is that?

$20. That's $20. Oh, buy one. I'm going to buy it. I'm going to buy it. That just, I saw that and I could immediately taste lime thrifty. Yeah, I could taste watered down Raro. Oh, yeah.

Yeah. So watered down because mum's like, she'll go crazy. Yep. You only need one packet for two litres. Ma'am. Ma'am. Ma'am. No, your mum, that was terrible.

We always got full strength. No, you were... Oh. A little bubble. A little bubble there from coughing. Yeah, we got that quench, thrifty stuff as well. The sugar-free? Yeah, yeah, yeah.

With God knows what chemicals. Yeah, God knows what chemicals. Sugar-free. Nan loved it. Nan loved the sugar-free concentrate, but mum was the sachets. Oh, okay. We had the sachets. Do you remember before the sachets of Raro you could buy the pottle?

No. No? Do you not remember the pottle? Was that a bulk buy thing? Yeah, yeah. It was like a honey container and you'd do like four scoops per litre. So it was eight scoops for two litres and then you'd have to shake the hell out of it because so much syrupy stuff sat at the bottom.

Oh, good stuff. Number four on the list of the top six things we'll miss about Tupperware, the mismatched lids. But the good thing about Tupperware is that it pretty much, you could fit it to all different sizes. Yeah. So it might be a two litre and a one litre, but the two litre was just a longer version of the one litre,

so it meant the same lid. Yeah, totally. And shout out to my mum, who is still rocking the big yellow Tupperware for her flour and her sugar. Oh, yeah. There's a big Tupperware there. They don't make them like they used to.

No, I know. Yeah. Number three on the list of the top six things we'll miss about Tupperware, the one that's gone a bit weird and white in the bottom and you're not sure, is it a layer of plastic coming off? Am I ingesting microplastics? Or did it get too hot?

Is it melted? Was it not dishwasher safe? Yeah. Is it dusty? And you scratch it and it doesn't really come off, but it kind of does come off and you're like, yeah, that's 80s plastic quality right there. Yeah, that's the best.

That's good stuff. And you know that's got some BPA in it. Oh, my God, yeah. Yum. Yum, yum, yum. BPA. And number one, oh, no, number two, actually. Number two on the list of the top six things we'll miss about Tupperware,

your mum telling you that nothing lasts like Tupperware every time you're using Tupperware. Yeah. Or if you use something else and she's like, what's that? Oh, no, you've got to get some Tupperware. Yeah. Or if you use something else and she's like, what's that? Oh no, you've got to get some Tupperware. Yeah,

nothing lasts like Tupperware. And number one on the list of the top six things we'll miss about Tupperware, that smell you got when you opened Tupperware where you forgot you had something in it and it's been sitting

in the back of the fridge for probably eight years. Yeah. But you know, there was always Tupperware in the fridge so you would often leave it undisturbed

and then you'd open it and there was just like an entire living ecosystem in there. There was oxygen producing things and there was oxygen using things. It was this whole little earth. That is today's top six. TikTok. Sorry, I'm just finishing off my lolly. Play ZM's Fletch Vaughan and Hayley. Play ZM. TikTok. Sorry, I'm just finishing off my lolly.

I'm having lollies for breakfast. A TikTok dermatologist has shared why pashing people with facial hair is not only unpleasant, in his words, but highly dangerous. What? His words, in his words, but highly dangerous. Wait, his words? In his words. Now, your partner, Aaron, he's got a big bed. Vaughan, you've got a big bed. Yep. Aaron's is rogue at the moment because we don't have a mirror or like a bathroom.

Full reno. Full reno. There'll be a few nails in there, a bit of wood filings. A couple of screws. Yeah, a couple of screws. A couple of screws in there, a bit of wood filings, a couple of screws in there. Well, he says that when you pash someone, when you like mack out with someone, is that what we call it?

Macking out? I think pash, just pashing. French kissing, sloppy kissing, someone with a beard. As the person without the beard, your skin gets these tiny little cuts all over it. Tiny, like you won't see them. Right. That's why your skin can sometimes go red. It doesn't look like little cuts.

It just looks like a rash. But these little cuts can also lead to an infection called impetigo, which looks like a big, cracked, blistery skin infection that'll ooze and burst. You've never had this? And Sade's never had this form? No. No, she hasn't. Not that I know.

No. Maybe we're not pashing hard enough. There's that. There's that. Yeah. Like, is this a worry for, like, new couples, you know, when you're just always pashing? Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Oh, my God. New couples, they love a pash. They love a pash. Yeah. They love a pash. a worry for like new couples you know when you're just always pashing yeah yeah yeah oh my god new couples they love a pash they love a pash but then he was like obviously like people can't we can't just go like no people with beards don't get kissed anymore because that's sad beards are hot well you love a beard I love a beard

he was like you just need to make sure that the person you're kissing or the person with facial hair washes their beard. Now, surely you do that already, Vaughn? Done. Yeah, I've got a head and shoulders. Oh, okay.

Do they make a special beard shampoo for baldies? Yeah. Yep. You just use normal shampoo. Well, you can get like beard shampoo, but I just find every now and then it might get a little druffy. Oh, yeah. You might get a little druffy.

So the old head and shoulders works a real treat on the beard as well. Yeah, because you've got to think that your face skin sheds like all the time. Yeah. And it just falls off and goes into the air. But if you've got a beard, it'll sort of go and get maybe kind of held up in there, as you say, a little druffy. Yeah. I don't think Aaron doesn't use a specific beard shampoo.

He just uses shampoo because he's got long hair as well. He does. Does he condition the beard? You've got to condition the beard. Shampoo and condition. Always. Softness sake. Always.

And then sometimes an oil at the end because his is quite he's got naturally quite a course yes what i think regardless of yeah if you've got a beard you've got to oil it you've got to oil it chuck a little bit of oil in there it's good for the beard but not just like not canola or sunflower like a nice specific. No, rice bran, like with a high smoke point. Just in case you're near a barbecue. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And as you say, when you're making out with your partner, you want them to, you know, maybe at a stretch, use an olive. I just want, you know, them to be taken to the Mediterranean

every time they're passion, they're a hot-beated man. Yeah. Now, producer Jarrod has grown himself quite an impressive moustache. It's looking great, Jared. It's a slug, isn't it? Yeah, it's a thick boy. It's a thick boy. Do you wash the slug?

Occasionally. That's a no-way. He paused. He paused. It's a weird one because I don't put thought into washing it, but if the shampoo kind of trickles down, I'll like smush it into the moustache. Boy's got a stinky mou.

Boy's got a stinky mou. Do you wash your face? Do you have like face wash? Yeah, I've got a face wash. And then when you do that and it can't, it's orange. It's orange, yeah. Is it Neutrogena? Might be.

Orange and silver bottle. Oh, darling. We need to get you a nice milky number. You're absolutely stripping that youthful skin of yours. Anyway, but when you wash your face, you'd like wash the beard as well, eh? Yeah, but do moustaches need an oil? I feel like it might just like ooze out and then... Sit down.

I think you get enough oil from the pies and the sausage rolls that kind of leak. I had a little pie this week, thank you very much. Yeah, well, it's only Wednesday. It's Wednesday, 6.47. Yesterday I found an article that did it as a survey of Americans and it found that just 36% of Americans in relationships rate their sex life as excellent. Okay. The top rating. Everyone else from there

was sort of downhill. Why are you giggling? I was just pre-reading some of the responses to Silly Little Pole as instructed to do because some of them need to be as she always had

delicately handled. Right. Have you got the results with you there, Vaughn? I'm On the comments But yes I do have The results

So Americans We asked Americans What did you say 36% said excellent So we said How would you rate Your sex life

We gave four options And then asked you To tell us why Excellent Good Fine Oh my gosh That's sad

Excellent Good Fine And bad Good, fine. Gosh, that's sad. Excellent, good, fine and bad. Well, excellent got 16% in New Zealand. Oh, no. Are you kidding me? Excellent. But you're with this person.

I know. Maybe forever or a long time. Excellent was 16. 36% of people said good, thumbs up. Wow. Oh, God. I think you need to... Which is not a way to describe your sex life

if you're in a therapy session, I don't think. How is it? Good. Good. Thumbs up, mate. It's good. It's good. It's good.

27% so the second highest just behind good. Fine. Dot, dot, dot. Fine. And we all know fine. Dot, dot, dot. Does not mean fine. Dot, dot, dot.

No, it doesn't. Fine never means fine. Fine means average to bad, doesn't it? Yeah. That's 27%. And 21% of people said bad. That's too many. That's more than. so excellent was the loser.

But that also, this includes singles, so people might be like, it's bad because it's non-existent. The question did say. No, our question was, how would you rate your sex life? So we were open to all people. The American one was, how do you rate it in a relationship? Oh, gosh. Now.

Some responses. Now, Vaughan, I know you're a bit delirium with the brain fog. He's got COVID brain fog. There are children in the cars around the nation. It's school holidays. It's not even 7 o'clock yet. Oh, let rip, Benny. Let rip.

Here we go. Here we go. I'm sensing. No, Mickey, I can't see what Mickey voted for. So maybe we can speculate off his feedback because me and my partner are trying for a third child. Oh. Oh, okay.

Do you think that means excellent? But if they're trying for a third child, it'll be heavily scheduled. Yeah, I've had friends who have, you know, struggled with fertility and they like clockwork, you know, like, oh, we've got to go now and it's be heavily scheduled. Yeah, I've had friends who have struggled with fertility and they like clockwork. You know, like, oh, we've got to go now and it's not that fun. Yeah. I, sir, am ovulating and I need it

now. I'm going to guess because he's a guy he put excellent because he's getting some. Yeah, yeah. It's always excellent. Yeah, that could be very well true. Mel said, an eight-year relationship I was in ended in January and I have since reconnected with a lover from 20 years ago. Oh.

Wow. Mundane sex life over, fire emoji sex bag. Oh. Okay. Wow. Okay. This is an off-air chat. Who would you go, who would you,

if you could sleep with someone you've slept with in the past, who would it be? Oh, like one of your top five? Got it. Ah! I don't know if you admit it. It's Erin. Are you crazy?

It's Erin. Of course, yeah. She's new. She's just learning the ropes. Yeah. This is definitely offhand chat. Just to, you know, save your own relationship. Becky, I'm guessing Becky voted for fine or bad because she said,

I'm single and absolutely CBS, not CBF, she can't be stuffed mingling. Now, isn't that sweet and innocent? That is sweet and innocent. That she can't be stuffed mingling. So maybe she needs to get out there, be single and ready to mingle. Oh, my God. The next one. Good luck.

Hannah says, we've been together for 15 years and he still gets my juices flowing 80% of the time. Wow. That's great, though. Good for you. Yeah, that's awesome. Yeah, that's great. Good work, Hannah.

Lisa said, we're still in our honeymoon phase our relationship is nine months and it's all very exciting and we're learning new things from each other panting face that's red with sweat marks the next emoji she uses is the smart very big smiley face with stars for eyes okay and then the next one is the sort of delirious dribbly face. Oh. Okay. Lisa, I think you've told a whole story with those three emojis. Okay, Rebecca, who said?

Oh, God. Oh, my God. Good luck. Not for, maybe we don't read out Rebecca's. Read the first one. Had a three-hour sesh with my FWB. Friends with benefits. friends with benefits okay because i am used to an swb which is a short wheelbase which is a term for a short land rover like mine oh that is my land rover my bedroom land rover is perfectly in proportion but the actual land rover is a short wheelbase land rover right okay don't read the second bit

oh yeah okay he in those three hours something else happened three times a short wheelbase land rover. Right. Okay. Go read the second bit. Oh, yeah, okay. He, in those three hours, something else happened three times. There you go. So she put excellent, I'm assuming. Yeah. And then she put the emoji with the party hat on blowing the party hooter.

Okay, wow. You needed, Nikki said you needed a button that says non-existent. Oh, Nikkient Oh, Nikki Self-love, self-love Dominique says there should be an option for more than excellent My goodness me Oh, wow, okay

Dan said I'm going through my S-word error right now Oh, yeah It rhymes with heart, but it starts with S I think we got it We all got it. I'm happy that sometimes I have great sessions and I rearrange with that person, and sometimes it's like, bye, Felicia.

So there you go. Right. Get a bit of everything. I'm a parent of Terrell. Terrell says, I'm a parent of two children under four. I guess you could class it as non-existent right now. Oh. So, yep.

There we go. There we go, the nation. I think there's some work to do as a whole. I think there really is. Play ZM's Fletch, Vaughn and Hayley. Anyway, Vaughn, moving on. I don't know. Anyway.

We want to know now, when you've had a friend recommend something. Okay, so here's the situation. I'm stuck at home. I've got COVID. I tested positive on Thursday after the long weekend group tour when I got home. My daughter was like, I've got COVID. I said, well, we'll all test. And I came back and I was like, I don't feel like I've got COVID.

And Friday I felt good as well. And Saturday I didn't feel too bad. And then Sunday and Monday I was just like, bleh. Oh, dear. It got me. But it's just a cold. God. And who's still testing?

That's what multiple people said to me. Why are people still testing? It's like, yeah, because I don't want to kill anybody. You were meant to go to Blenheim for the long weekend. Correct. I did thanks to everybody who sent through the videos of the air show that I missed. Oh, that would have been amazing. It did.

It looked really, really cool. So I'm stuck at home. I'm somewhat couch ridden for a couple of days. And I throw it open to the lads chat, the boys that we play D&D with, and I'm like, who's got a good video game recommendation? Nice. I'm going to spend some time with my beloved PlayStation 5.

Okay. Which I still don't have the virtual reality headset for, so I don't know if anybody from PlayStation is listening, but probably. I reckon you could just probably buy it, Vaughn. Nah. Well, I mean, rich coming from you, Audi. I definitely couldn't buy an Audi,

but it's nice that they've given me one. Fair call, fair call. And so producer Jared says, what about Civilization VI? Right, that sounds like a bit of you. They're up to VI. It must be good. There you go.

It's five. Sid Meier's greatest work, says Jared. That means nothing to me. I don't know who Sid Meier is. It's described a little bit to me like Age of Empires. Which I don't know if you guys remember that. What a game. I loved Age of Empires.

I used to play that on the PC and you'd get the cheat codes. Yeah, PC and the cheat codes. For infinite gold and those flying Dutchmen and then they put in a cheat where you could drive around like a Knight Rider, like laser car and just laser all your enemies who at the time were still stuck in the Bronze Age. Yeah, having a look at it, it does look very, it's like a Sims meets Age of Empires kind of vibe.

Yeah. So I don't know if it was once upon a time a board game because here's two things Vaughan Smith can't do. Complicated card games. Same. I always forget the rules. Yeah, if it's anything more than Snap, I'm pretty much out. Like it took me years to learn the basics of poker,

but now I haven't played it for so long, I've completely forgotten how it works. When you're out, I'm going to teach you a hell of a game. It's called Go Fish and it is going to blow your mind i've played that one before that's where you're like have you got any threes go fish but you're allowed are you allowed to lie no okay but you can you can it's based on honesty honestly okay well honestly is not the best policy so i can't do complicated card games and board games that have a lot of elements to them.

I get very confused. It takes me a long time to process rules. Yes. And then I forget the rules. And, you know, some people just click that. They're like, oh, you've got to try this card game and rattle off all these rules. And you're like, no.

So this is one of those games where it's so complicated. It takes so long to play. I don't know what the hell's going on. And so my little civilization is ticking along. I'm like, great, I just got a chariot. And then the guy next to me has got an airport. Wait, what? I've just got a chariot.

I've just discovered the wheel and managed to, you know, do some leather work to harness a horse. And he's worked out the basics of flight. You're not very good at this game if you're still in a chariot. Dude, I'm terrible. And then some guy was like, give me eight bags of tea for the next 30 turns. And I was like, no. And he declared war on me and he had a tank.

Yeah. And so, yeah, this is a terrible recommendation. It sounds boring. It sounds crap. It's too long. It's not exciting. And I couldn't find any cheat codes to unlock, you know, infinite cash and infinite turns. So I'm going to be invoicing producer Jared for the 1099.

It cost me to buy the Meier's Civilizations. I mean, that's your giveaway. It's a shit game in the first place. It's $10.99. Yeah, $10.99. But I was wondering this morning when your friends gave you a bad recommendation, maybe it was like, you know how people consider themselves foodies

and they're like, oh, you like this sort of thing. I've got a lovely recommendation for a restaurant. And then you get there and you're like, oh my God, this is not. Yeah I've got a lovely recommendation for a restaurant. And then you get there and you're like, oh, my God, this is not. Yeah, this is trash. Or maybe it was a recommendation of a friend. Like, oh, my God, you're going to love this person. I think you guys could really hit it off. And then you go on a date, you're like, what do you think of me?

If you think that me and this dweeb are going to, you know, run off into the sunset. Yeah, you put such little value on me that you think I'll just have to settle for this guy. Because, I mean, like a TV show recommendation, you can watch it value on me that you think I'll just have to settle for this guy. Because, I mean, like a TV show recommendation, you can watch it for 10, 15 minutes. You haven't wasted that much time. Yeah, but what if it's a 10, 15 minutes

and you're like, I'm not loving this show and they're like, you've got to give it three episodes and then you give it three episodes and a full hour-long episodes and at the end of your investment, you're still like, no, this wasn't for me. You don't know me. Are we best friends or not?

Yeah. Well, we want to take your calls. 0800 dials at MSN number 9696. Your friend's worst recommendations. How much time did you waste? How much money? How much life did you waste? We are talking about

your friend's poor recommendations for you. Maybe they think, and it's one of those moments where you're like, do you even know me? I guess, and that's the part that hurts the most. Paid $10.99 for Sid Meier's Civilization VI on the recommendation of producer Jared and it's confusing and it's the rules. It's too many rules.

It's a game. Yeah. And it's a game. Do you feel like your friendship will survive this? It'll survive it, but it's one of those ones from now on, I guess, it'll just be second-guessing every recommendation. Yeah. You know?

Yeah. Which is sad and it's unfortunate, but that's the way life's got to be from now. Yeah, I'm so sorry. Yeah, so message is in. Somebody messaged in, my friend recommended going to Bali. This may have been Hayley. Great place, great place. Great place. I ended up

nearly dying on a motorbike and got my stuff stolen by monkeys. Yeah, there you go. But that's not on your friend, is it? You've got to be careful around monkeys and you've got to be careful on scooters. Yeah. Well, you can die on motorbikes anywhere. They're very, you know, very dangerous forms of transport.

They truly are. The dumbest. Somebody said, what happens if it's your friend's partner? She talked him up like the bee's bloody knees. So, you know, she's fully recommending that this person's a great addition to her life. And then we met him and we were like, ugh, seriously? Oh, no. Oh, I recommend you like my boyfriend.

They're trying to convince, yeah, they're trying to convince you. They're trying to convince themselves, perhaps. Maybe. A friend tried to set me up with a guy, and when I got there, he was just, as she described, physically. Oh, yeah. But also a total knob end. Now, that's her words.

Knob end. A knob end. Wow. What the hell of a word. I don't think I've ever been set up on a date. Have I? No, I've always sort of like met them myself. Wow. I don't think I've ever been set up on a date. Have I? Nah, I've always sort of like met them myself. It's my worst

nightmare to become a single middle-aged man and have people, I've got a friend you are going to love. And it's like, no, I don't think so. Just say no. No. Just say no. I don't think I will. It's only going to hurt my feelings. Yeah. You turn up and they're like, hello. I don't think I will. It's only going to hurt my feelings. Yeah. You turn up and they're like, hello, I ring a bell in Notre Dame.

Well, I'm sure you're beautiful on the inside, and that's going to be the moral of the story, but not now. You do love bells, though, and that's why we set you up on that date. Yeah, that feels so ungrateful. It does. And she blossomed into a beautiful woman. Quasimodo. She-modo. Some replies on Instagram we asked,

and somebody said chicken stroganoff is the worst recommendation. It's famously beef. Yeah, it's a beef stroganoff because it's like a slow-cooked sort of a casserole situation. What's the problem with chicken? It overcooks it, perhaps. Dries it out? Maybe use the thigh next time? Don't give up on chicken stroganoff.

It sounds delicious. Fern said the worst recommendation from a friend is my now ex-husband. Oh, yep. Yep, that'll be it. And Jess said legitimately the worst recommendation from a friend was having a child and giving birth. It was absolutely hideous. Now, I don't know if it's just the act of giving birth or if... The whole thing sounds horrible.

Even now that they've got the child, they still think it's terrible. Yeah, that's a recommendation I'm not taking up. Somebody said friend recommended Game of Thrones. We all know how that ended. Wasted nine years of my life. Oh, hey. Now look, they had a couple of bad episodes and the last one was one of them. Give them a break.

We enjoyed it. Somebody said, my hairdresser recommended trying a trendy new style. I'm now rocking a trash wolf cut. Oh, I love a wolf cut. Wolf cut's a cool. What's a wolf cut? Like a shaggy sort of girl mullet. Ah.

Yeah, I'd do it if I didn't work in the media. My friend recommended I try the minty body wash. Oh, no. It's trash. Oh, no. That'll tingle your jennies. That'll do. That'll tingle your jennies.

Oh, yeah. Well, they said they're no longer friends. So it must have really been more of a tingle your jennies. Oh, yeah. Well, they said they're no longer friends, so it must have really burned. More of a tingle there, because if your friend recommends something that tingles the jennies often, that's a good thing. Yeah, sometimes.

But if your friend recommends someone or something that ends up burning it, bad recommendation. Bad. Bad. Play ZM's Fletch Vaughan and Hayley. Play ZM. I reckon I do this a lot in my relationship I use this saying a lot

and it's just popped up as a bit of a hot debate online as to like why we keep saying this and how unhelpful it truly is and the saying is, I don't mind Oh yeah, okay. But it's a race. It's a race to say, it's a race to be the person that asks,

what do you want for dinner? Because that's just as annoying as saying, I don't mind. You know, because no one's making a decision. Yeah, that is so, I hate that. What are you saying, Sue? I don't mind, whatever you want. Yeah, you're chucking the ball to them, and then they're hitting it back over the net with a, I hate that. What are you saying, C? I don't know, whatever you want. Yeah, you're chucking the ball to them and then they're hitting it back over the net

with a I don't mind and then you hit it back with a well, give me some options and then you hit it back over with a well, I'm easy. And then you make a mince dish for dinner and they're like, I don't want mince. I don't want mince.

And you say, I don't mind. Never say no to mince. Never say no to mince. All minces are welcome. But they're saying that like like it's sort of a, it's crept in as like an innocent thing of going like, oh, I don't really want to make the decision. And also like a lot of the time it's like,

I am genuinely happy for you to make the decision, but all you're doing is moving, is like moving the mental load onto the other person. So you've sort of innocently gone, oh, I don't mind, as if it's not a big thing. But then you've just like lump onto the other person. So you've sort of innocently gone, I don't mind, as if it's not a big thing. But then you've just like lumped the other person with the need to make, with the, you know, they have to make the decision for you.

But they lumped you with making the decision. No one ever says, I don't mind first. They asked a simple question, Vaughan. They asked a question. They're lumping you with making the decision. They're asking, what do you want now everything's on you. So you saying I don't mind back is just doing to them what they've just done to you.

It's cancelling it out, isn't it? It's true. It's negating it. It's a cycle. A lot of psychologists have jumped in and saying like, you know, sometimes it's a gendered thing, like a lot of the time. I mean, in a classic sort of set up,

the man would be the one who says, I don't mind, and the woman's going to make the decision around what we're eating that night and what we're doing that day. But also a lot of the times I'm asked for my opinion on something. I know it's just because Sade feels she has to. What colour do you think we should paint this? He's a brave man broadcasting from home saying these things. I know.

She's right there. She's up at the end of the house. She's at the other end. What are you doing? And she wouldn't dare come in here because she knows there's a video element to it. She storms in here in her gruts and her sleeping T-shirt. It'll be all over the internet.

Give that mummy shit to the man on the radio. It'll all be on video. Yeah. Well, in the workplace, saying I don't mind can be a sign of something bigger, can be a sign of a person's deteriorating ability or capacity to make decisions in the wake of having to do so constantly. Right. Or it could just be a sign they're quiet quitting.

Quiet quitting. Totally. Totally. They've booked their OE in July and they don't care. Yeah. They literally don't care. Yeah. And it feels like you are just delegating a decision to them

and trying to get out of your job. Well, there's one psychologist who said in these situations, just make a rule in your house that you'd never say, I don't know or I don't care, in relationship to these sort of everyday questions. Force yourself to have to give an answer. What do you want for dinner? Actually stop and think about it. Nachos, do nachos.

Do nachos. He's a mince dish. He loves his mince dish. And he also said a lot of the time, like planning your week far in advance or in the morning or on Sunday night, you can actually just remove this question from. No.

Boo, boo, boo. Why? Because then on Sunday it's all sorted. But you're going to plan for on Sunday when you're all in your motivated mood and then you'll bite off more than you can chew on Wednesday's dish and then you'll be like, I don't want that now on Wednesday. What about like a taking turns thing? Like I'll choose tonight

and you choose tomorrow. Yeah, that's a good idea. I'll choose where we go for this date night. You choose the next one. But then you're just going to be constantly like judging their choice. I guess we're just going to spend the whole life fighting. Yes. That's better. That's easy. Let's just stick to that.

It's worked for ages. Play. ZM's Fletch. It's worked for ages. Play. ZM's Fletch Vaughan and Hayley. Well, a drink has gone viral on TikTok. It's a classic. It's a take on a classic. An espresso martini. Oh, one of my faves.

So you make the espresso martini, and then, you know, it's in the glass. It's got the froth on the top. Yeah. And then you get a grater, and you grate Parmesan cheese all over it. A good, like, layer of thick Parmesan cheese. And that apparently is what's gone viral. And people either say that's disgusting or people actually doing it and trying it and saying, actually, it's quite nice. I mean, I'll try anything once.

This you know about me. And she'll dabble more than once if she likes it. I will dip a toe anywhere. Yeah. But I love espresso martini and I love parmesan as a cheese, but the two shall not mix. But you haven't tried it. No, I haven't tried it.

I was at a gelato place the other day, and they've got a few wild flavours. Yeah. Wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute. What? Wait a minute. This is Mr. Can't-Have-Any-Treats. He's been good. No, on the weekend, he's an absolute freak boy.

But you were at a gelato place. Yeah, no, this was like last week. And then one of the flavours. Oh, that's all I'll say. It's interesting. Who drew you to this gelato place? We couldn't tempt you last week with a sweet treat. No, I, it was just, anyway.

On the weekends, he cuts loose. Yeah, on the weekends, you're allowed gelato. You're allowed it. It's just with friends, and that's what you do. Yeah. Oh, okay. And it was like, I forget what flavor it was, but it was blah, blah, blah, and cheese.

And there was like grated cheese in the gelato. It was weird. It's very important we know what the flavour was. I feel like it was kind of like pink. I think it was yam and something. Oh, God, yuck. Yam and cheese gelato. It was something wild.

I can't remember, but I was... I love a little jam and cheese. I just went for a classic triple chocolate. Yeah, do jam and cheese. Jam and cheese pops. Apricot jam and cheese. Boy, boy, boy, boy, boys. Yeah, see, that's okay.

Yeah, but that's a sweet and a cheese. Because I was going to say, it's the sweetness of the espresso martini or the ice cream. With the cheese, it doesn't work, but that's not true. I know this. Well, I mean, maybe don't knock it till you try it. I know, but espresso martini or the ice cream. With the cheese, it doesn't work, but that's not true. I know this. Well, I mean, maybe don't knock it till you try it.

I know, but espresso martinis, they're like $24 a pop. Even when you make them at home, they're expensive. We were making them on Thursday, weren't we, with a bit of white chocolate liqueur. That's the secret. That's the secret. That's the secret. Or to use like a caramel chocolate,

a caramel coffee as your coffee element. That pops off. That's good stuff. That pops off. Now I'm looking up Parmesan cheese recipes. Fried Brussels sprouts with lemon, sage and grated Parmesan cheese. Yeah, I do that. See, that's good.

But you're not on an espresso martini. But what about this one? Parmesan cloud. Have you ever been to a restaurant where they'll chuck a cloud? Yeah, I do that. See, that's good. But you're not on an espresso martini. But what about this one? Parmesan cloud. Have you ever been to a restaurant where they'll chuck a cloud? Yeah, I love cloud. What do you mean? Egg white cloud. And you're like, what?

It's just like the lightest. It's almost non-existent. Lettuce cloud. It's dumb. You'd hate it. Right. With a beef cloud. Parmesan ice cream, tomato jam and sunflower seeds.

No. Pickle. No, that sounds posh and wet. It's too ware. It's too ware for its own good. Play ZM's Fletch, Vaughn and Hayley. Hello, everybody. It's Vaughn Smith here.

And yes, I have just gone to mycovidrecord.health.nz and logged the fact that I did contract COVID-19, the novel coronavirus. Good boy. Good boy. Good boy. He's a good boy. Give him a bone. He's a good boy.

He's done it. Isolating until Thursday, aren't you? Because that'll be a week. Correct. Okay, good. Yes, yes. And the 31st of May, according to this, was when I got COVID for the first time. And now I've got it for the second time.

But that's okay. I've been doing it a whole year. Nearly. Are we all two? Or are you only one, Hayley? Yeah. Oh, she's a one-er. She's one. What a loser.

Yeah. I've taken like six rat tests in the last, since you tested positive, Vaughn. Yeah. And yeah, nothing. Even I've got a little bit of a in the nose. Get a little bit of a schnozzy block. I think it's jib dust. It's not COVID that we're here to talk about

because everybody's sick of talking about COVID. Trust me. I have, though, found myself with a little bit of time and, you know, I don't have a lot of energy to go outside and do my usual farmlet tasks. Of course. I've found some time to spend some quality time with my PS5 and I got back into a game uh of

virtual farming farming simulator 2022. boy what a game wow it's good you used to play this a lot and then did you just kind of get over it yeah yeah well it's quite i'm intensive and there's jobs to be done on the actual outside farmlet versus the virtual one. So I got back into that. And granted, I think on Easter Sunday, I would have played it for probably nine hours, nine or 10 hours. Oh my God.

Oh wow. Of intense virtual farming to which the day ended. Actually, it was on Monday. So Easter Sunday was a big day of farming. Easter Monday, also some more virtual farming. And Monday's thing was I bought all the farms around my farm and planted nothing but corn. I wanted to monoculture.

I wanted to just see how much corn I could harvest. And so I harvested all this corn. You're probably absolutely dying to know how many litres of... Oh, my God, I'm so interested. 350,000 litres is how much of the uh silo it took up you could have been watching a whole series on netflix in nine hours you could have read a book yeah or i could have farmed 350 000 virtual liters of coal this This is why when Aaron, because Aaron is keen for a PlayStation. Every now and then he borrows his brothers and I lose him for a week. I lose him.

He goes. This is why one will not enter the house. Because it's so, and I say this with love, Vaughn, so unattractive to me. The idea of me being around the household and you being on the TV farming for nine hours. Well, you just need to be more interesting.

Are those the same words you said to Sade when she told you that you're no longer allowed to do it? And she kept saying, I can see you starting to plant another paddock of corn. So you have been banned from farming she's like where what when is this going to end and she's like i'm effing sick of looking at the tv and seeing you put her around on a john deere tractor

and i said uh it'll never end and then it did end and she said i don't want to see another tractor on that tv so that's what I was talking about before, producer Jared's terrible recommendation of Civilization VI. Wait, wait, wait. So your answer to her saying that you've been doing too much farming simulator was to not just get up and stop playing games, was to just find a new game. And the jokes on her, you can actually do little,

you have to do little farms in Civil civilization to feed your people, you see. So technically I'm still getting that little scratchy scratch. She's going to want you out of the house ASAP. No, she's going to want a new man in the house. That's what she's going to want. I'm fiddling with a ring light. You're getting a little bit backlit. The social media desk wanted me.

I was too backlit because I'm broadcasting from home. So I'm just fiddling with a ring light yeah you're getting a little bit back in the social media desk what are me um i was too backlit because i'm broadcasting from home so i'm just fiddling with a ring light you look a bit blue yeah what do i need to do here i'm ready to do my makeup tutorial um guys i'm going to show you how to do it what foundation are you using today um. No, I don't think that's a thing. Okay, well, you've just destroyed my dream of being a YouTube makeup tutorialist. Yeah, try again. Last night I was lying in bed flicking through, might have been like Facebook.

No, go on. I can't see why you're all giggling. No, you go on. You turn into grow up. I was fl see why you're all giggling. No, you go on. You turn into Grow Up. I was flicking through Facebook Reels or something. You know, those little short videos. Anyway, there was a video of Harry Connick Jr. Now, who then I spent a good 15 minutes seeing what Harry Connick Jr.

has been up to since the 90s when I was obsessed with him. He was, yeah, a singer in the 90s. Hell of a piano player. Classic. Yeah, he's a great pianist. Hell of a piano player. He's just recently been in Australia for Australian Idol or like one of those shows.

Oh, that's sad. Why? Well, no one goes on those shows. Yeah, it's a bit of a step down, isn't it? No one goes on those shows at the height of their career, do they? Nah, maybe not. So he's been on that. But this video was amazing.

He was playing to a crowd and they were clapping on the one and the three, not the two and the four. Oh, God. I just like, of all the stuff you can be watching. I just love that way of describing people. Harry Connick Jr. What are you, a nana? So then he changes it

and he chucks an extra beat in and they don't even know what's happening. All of a sudden, they're clapping on the two and the four. Amazing magician. He's a magician

and a musician all rolled into one. A musician. And I rolled over to my wife and I said, check this out. It's Harry Connick Jr. And look at what he does.

He's magnificent. All right, I found a Harry Connick Jr. And look at what he does. He's magnificent. All right, I found a Harry Connick Jr. song here. This was the song that I loved when I was a kid. And then I started telling her about how much I loved Harry Connick Jr. when I was a kid and I had his tape. And I was just a big Harry Connick Jr. fan. She said, I don't think kids were supposed to be into Harry Connick Jr. Like, especially when you grew up in the height of, like,

all the amazing rock bands of the 90s. Yeah. Okay, so a confession. In 1992, I bought Billy Ray Cyrus' album with Achy Breaky Heart on it, and that was, like, my album for that year, I think. Oh, my God. That was my last year of primary school. And then Harry Connick Jr., I think, was 93.

93 was was like... Around then, and I loved it. Pop music was like number one. Oh, my God. No, there's better... But, Shade, it's the equivalent of... Smashing pumpkins. Yeah, it's the equivalent of a kid these days being obsessed with Michael Bublé.

It is, yes. Like this crooning lounge singer that's not really targeted. It's more targeted towards middle-aged women. I'm being a bit of a hypocrite because when I was growing up in the 90s, a little bit later when it was Spice Girls, Backstreet Boys, Hanson, my favourite singer was Nancy Sinatra.

Oh, weird. That's weird. I've always been obsessed with Nancy. And I remember having a show in Talladega and everyone had to bring their favourite song and everyone had like, stop right now. And mine was Lightning's Girl by Nancy Sinatra. And everyone was like, who dis? That's weird.

But I always find it so amazing. You see videos online, it's like my four-year-old's obsessed with and they're at Coronation Street. And then they're walking around talking Coronation Street and they want to have a chat with everybody about Coronation Street. Yeah. It's always like funny and weird when kids are into like things well beyond their years. Yeah, totally agree. Must have been me with my Harry Connick Jr. tapes just cranking some crooner.

This morning we were wondering if you as a child, or maybe you've got a child, who is into something well beyond their years. Like they're already embracing their middle-agedness. Maybe you were like, you know those kids nowadays that eat like sushi, like little toddlers with like sushi and chopsticks, and they're so, you know, whereas I was having like mashed banana, you know, on toast. Yeah, like kids who like blue cheese

yeah blue cheese and spicy food and you're like huh like what weird okay so what yeah the weird things

that you were obsessed with as a kid beyond your years far more of a middle aged thing yeah yeah should we play that

Harry Connick Jr. song now start to end on the radio absolutely not absolutely not I just whispered your name absolutely not Should we play that Harry Connick Jr. song now? Start to end on the radio. Absolutely not. I'm interrupted. Absolutely not. I just whispered your name. Absolutely not. Play ZM's Fletch Vordernaley.

Play ZM. Child, that. Oh, hang on. Start again. We had you off. Who had me off? Fletch had me off. Yeah, but we were just having a moment.

Because yesterday we had a lot of fun together, just the two of us. And it's just readjusting to the trio dynamic. It's just readjusting. Yeah, it's readjusting. It's a readjustment. Yeah. Talking about the weird things that you were into as a kid, beyond your years. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Things that maybe weren't targeted to you as a child, but you enjoyed them anyway. Lots of messages in. Somebody said broccoli. Oh, wow. They begged for broccoli for Christmas. Got it on top of a stocking with a big red bow. Even posted pictures with it. My parents thought I was nuts, but crikey, I loved a bit of broccoli.

Oh, it's a super food, isn't it? Wow. Yeah. Super food. When I was eight, someone showed me their stamp collection and I was just immediately obsessed with stamps and collecting them and like touching them and seeing where they came from and like imagining the stories of what that stamp had seen.

So everyone's got like Nerf guns and like Transformers and you're like, you want to see my stamps? It's like an old man thing, isn't it? Yeah. My seven-year-old loves the Sharkty mat. Laid on it for an hour last night. Oh, I got a Sharkty mat. I had to get rid of it.

It's too sore. Oh, my God. Aaron's on it every night, but he's a weathered old man. A seven-year-old wouldn't have the weight. You know, when you're laying on it as an adult, you've got a lot more weight. It's like how children can lift their body weight

a lot easier than adults. But do you think as well they've also got softer skin than us so it kind of balance out? Oh, because it accommodates the shark. Yeah, well, because their soft skin will get permeated easier by the spikes.

Natalia, your toddlers are into something beyond their years. Yes. Stuffed green olives. Oh, like with the little pepper and the cream cheese in it. No, not the cream cheese. No?

With the pepper in it, but stuffed green olives in the brine. Oh. Do you know, there are so many messages of people that said olives. Their kids loved olives. Is it one of, you think it is, the saltiness or? I don't know, but what an expensive thing for them to want. Not wrong. It costs a bloody fortune.

Yeah. And they still gobble them like lollies and they're all in their 20s now. Oh, God. It never stops. That habit never, ever stops. Okay, Natalia, thanks for your call. I'll live forever, though, won't they? The Mediterranean people on the olive diet, they live forever. That's the best diet. They lookalia, thanks for your call. I'll live forever though, won't they? The Mediterranean people on the olive diet.

That's the best diet. They look great for the skin. Amy, your kids are into something beyond their years? Yes, I've got a three-year-old daughter who is absolutely obsessed with smoked fish. That's so fancy. Gee, that's so fancy. I love a smoked kahawai.

Yeah, my partner does a lot of smoking and even the other night she was sitting there with literally half a fish on her plate and just sat picking at it. Flesh. And my son, who's two, is absolutely obsessed with watching golf with my partner. Oh, my God.

He's an old man as well. Yeah. He's fishing golf. That is the most old man sport, golf. Yes, he even goes and walks the golf course with him too. Oh, my God. that is so sweet. If I ever see golf on television the whole time, I'm just pretending I can see the ball when it's flying through the sky.

Oh, yeah, you can never see the ball. Never see the ball. You can't see the ball. It needs to be orange. Or no, it needs to be like green, like tennis. Yeah, like mini-pup balls at golf. They're always like fluoro colours. Yeah, follow that.

Thanks, you're cool. Claire, as a kid, what were you into that was beyond your years? Elvis Presley. I loved him. Wait, how old were you when you got into Elvis? Four. Every Saturday

morning. I used to wake up in the morning and we'd always watch the little kids' TV shows but then it finished off with an Elvis Presley film and I just loved G.I. Blues so much and I wanted to marry him. I mean, yeah, he's a good-looking fella for a while. For and into Elvis.

Yeah, yeah. What year was this? Because you don't sound old enough to have been a child when Elvis was alive and kicking. This would have been in about 1978. I was about 48 now, so yeah. Yeah, but 78, Elvis had already departed, hadn't he? Yeah, he had. Yeah, this mortal coil.

Claire thinks he calls the messages. I was into Tupac back in primary school. Holy. When kids were listening to Barney or Teletubbies music. I was, yeah, I hope your parents picked and chose what Tupac songs because some of them. Some of them, yeah, some sweary lyrics. Very sweary.

Sweary, but saying the least. When I was a seven-year-old, I used to love watching The Bill. You remember that british tv show yes clip clip clip clap down the street when i when i heard the intro playing for the bill i'd run to the tv i love the doomy gloomy british accent and the crunchy gravel underneath their feet oh my god the bill um as children my sister and i were obsessed with Priscilla Queen of the Desert It was our favourite movie, we knew it word for word We'd watch it any opportunity we got

That's Waiheke Island in the 1990s I love this message When I was young, I would check the weather forecast Before deciding what to wear for the day Wow, that is something a mum does That's clever That was clever Yeah, never cold, never too hot Wow, that is something a mum does. It is so good, yeah. I love that. That's clever.

That was clever. Yeah, never cold, never too hot. When I was five, I'd jump in mum's car and she'd be listening to a pop music station and I'd change it to solid gold and try to listen to songs from the 60s and 70s. Wow. Let's see. I had a dollar store glass collection. I would collect salt and pepper shakers.

Anything that was porcelain or glass was what I spent my pocket money on. I just loved collecting. That's what nannies do. That's such a silly thing to collect as a kid. You can't even use them. You don't even cook. My son is five and obsessed with bingo as in, you know, the old person's game. All the legs are 11.

Legs 11. Yeah. He specifically asked for Christmas complete with a rolling selector, like the lotto machine, so he could call his own bingo games. Oh, he's going to be so great in the Ryman Rest Home bingo nights.

Oh, he's going to pop off. He'll be calling the numbers. Oh, good. Play. ZDM's Fletch Vaughan and Hayley. Fact of the day, day, day, day, day Well, Vaughan's back with us today So you don't have to do fact of the day I think I did quite well though actually Did you hear it Vaughan's back with us today so you don't have to do fact of the day. I think I did quite well though actually.

Did you hear it Vaughan? I did it yesterday. What was it? That Mattel accidentally released a very gay Barbie in the early 90s. I've got it. I've got him. You've got the Ken. I've got the Ken. You've got the gay earring Ken.

Yeah, I've got him. Wait, I think I knew that. With the earring and the gay ear. Yeah. Yeah, it was Ken. 90s Ken. It was really popular and they didn't know what they'd done. Yeah, yeah, I've got one. Wow. I've got him in my cupboard.

That's just made that even better. That's made that better. I think I remember that. It was a while ago. In the first season of Have You Been Paying Attention, I bought it for my whole Vaughan, what have you been up to this week? Well, Hayley, this week I purchased on eBay a limited edition. Oh, you did too?

I totally forgot about that. Well, people wouldn't remember it because they cut it for time. And I said, well, great, I won't bother putting any effort into those stories anymore. And I haven't since. And he has not since.. And I haven't since. And he has not since. And I really haven't since. Anyway, I'm happy to hand back the fact of the day torch to you, Sid.

Yeah. Today's fact of the day is about clanking the tongs together. When you, you know, when you pick up a pair of tongs, barbecue tongs, you always get the tong tong. I love doing that. Tong, tong, tong, tong. And you think it's just like, you know, it was funny and it was a meme, wasn't it? You know, if you don't do this, they're not going to work properly, et cetera.

I just like the feeling of it. The tongs, boing, boing, boing, boing, boing. Give them a tank, tank, tank. That's basically some neuroscientists looked into it, and that is basically your brain calibrating the tongs. What? Oh. Isn't that weird?

It's like when you put on boots and you stomp. You know when you put on like gumboots and you go, yep, my feet are in these correctly. This is where they should be from previous experience with boots. This is what I need to do. So this is what your brain's calibrating that the tongs are working and how far in you have to like tang them to grip things. Wow.

I guess you do the same a little bit with chopsticks too, don't you? You always go tick, tick. Yeah, you get them together and go tick, tick, tick, tick. Yeah, you put them in your hand and you're going to see that they join. And if they don't, you make your little calibrations. So it's not just this ridiculous fun thing that dads do when they pick up the tongs. It's actually your brain being like, this is how hard I need to push them. This is where they stop. And it's, yeah, it's a full calibration. I just, yeah. It's so funny of the thinking about the things

that you do without thinking about it. Yeah. And they're hard to list because you don't think about them. Yeah, you never do. You just do them naturally. Yeah. Yeah, it's like when you jump in a car and you're like, oh, and you slam your hand on the horn and you yell out,

you effing idiot, do you know how to drive? You're just kind of like getting in the motion for what this car's going to be like to road rage in. Absolutely, yeah. I do it every single time. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Or if you pick up an axe, you throw it because you want to know what it's going to feel like when you have to launch it at somebody. You have to know how

sharp it's going to be. You have to know these things. You have to know. Or before you eat like a corn on the cob and you go yum, yum, yum, yum, yum, corn. You just, every time, it's just natural. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And you go, in case some butter dribbles down the bottom of the corn and you go, yum, yum, yum, yum, yum, corn. You just, every time it's just natural. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And you go, in case some butter dribbles down the bottom of the corn, you've got to be ready to go for the corn. So today's fact of the day is when you pick up the tongs and you go tink, tink, tink to make sure, you know, they're working, you are actually calibrating them to your brain.

Fact of the day, day, day, day, day. Yeah. Do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do. Play ZM's Fletch, Vaughn and Hayley. There was some research done in the United Kingdom and it was kind of looking at like ageing and things we miss from childhood and things we don't love about being an adult. Lots of things. The one takeaway I'm honing in on here

is that the average adult says they lost their sense of fun by the age of 27. So they stopped having fun at 27. That's sad. It's really sad. Clearly this. How old are you, 41? 41 years old, ma'am. He's currently wearing a ring light as a necklace.

You need a little bit of attention, Hon? Well, I just think it's a nice take on a well-lit video. I'm just going for a really silly one. Yeah. I often feel this, like, I watched that TV show and I've talked about it a little bit, Flashman's in Trouble. Right.

Which, if you're like hitting your 40s or your late 30s and you're like, is life where I thought it would be by now? Or if you're just going through that at any age, give that a watch because it's really interesting. You maybe think you're the only person going through it. But I was like, not a lot of this applies to me. And I think it's because like I do just get to fart around all day

and play silly buggers. Like, I never had to get to a point where I was like, it's time to grow up now. Yeah, same. And you get to your 40s and you're like, wow, 10 years has passed and I haven't, you know, done this, that or the other. Yeah, we definitely do have the benefit of working in the entertainment industry, which in itself can be quite fun.

And sometimes you dress up and sometimes you just chat to your mates and stuff. But then if you had a serious job, you would be serious, wouldn't you? Or if you had shareholders breathing down your neck saying, like, where's my money going? What are you doing about it? Yeah. Yeah, stressful and not like some people don't look forward

to their eight hours a day. And so maybe that's why at that age, you know, you feel like you've got to give up the fun stuff and concentrate on the grown-up stuff. Someone just messaged in saying, well, I got married at 27, so that sounds right. Oh, leave him, leave him. No, but I feel like, I mean, yes, before 27,

I had less responsibilities. Yeah. But, I mean, again, I don't have children, so I don't really have that many more responsibilities than paying bills and having fun. In fact, Aaron asked me the other day, he said, what do you think your purpose in life is? Jesus!

What, are you taking mushrooms or something? Whoa, man. Oh, man, What is it? What is it all about? What is your purpose in life, man? No, no. We were just reflecting because, you know, we went and saw our friend's new baby. Yeah.

And they've so landed in this new purpose and it radiates from them. It's very exciting. And I don't have that desire. So Aaron asked me what it was for me. I literally, my answer was to have fun. Like my purpose in life, I want to like entertain people for sure. And like, I don't know, not be a dumb person. It's to drink all the cocktails, isn't it? It's to like drink the cocktails and like take the flights and like go to the parties

and like socialize with my friends and sit in the sun and have a great time. Yeah. Nobody ever on their deathbed, you know, you hear about people on their deathbed, the things they regret. What are their regrets? No one ever said, oh, i did have one too many cocktails no one no one says oh my god i really regret um putting my money towards that trip around europe yeah man i i really regret that day i just decided to lay on the couch and eat a bag of chips what a dumb use of my time yeah you've gotta you've gotta do that stuff if you're not enjoying it, what's the point?

I think if you look at this study and you think, yeah, that applies to me, after 27 I stopped having fun, go to Rambo's Inn today. Go paint your face. Not today, Hayley. It's going to be raining. Despite the name, it's not a fun day in the rain. Okay. I'd save that for a fine day.

Save it up and then go to Rambo's End. And that'll be really fun. Or paint your face like a frog and every time you go to a business meeting, everyone will be like, what a fun guy. Or that, or they'll alert HR because it is ever prevalent that your mental breakdown is here. You will be admitted to a hospital. Yeah. Great news, guys. Play ZM's Fletch Vodden Ailey.

Play ZM. Great news, guys. From May the 26th, all transactions in New Zealand dollars between all of New Zealand's participating banks will be processed every day, including the long weekend or weekends. Oh, yeah. How good is that going to be? Why? This is taking too long.

This shouldn't be news. This should have been done years ago. Because it was always like, oh, yeah, I'll pay you now. What bank are you with? You'd be like, oh, I'm with Westpac. Oh, good, I'm with Westpac. It'll go through straight away. Because at the moment, if you're the same bank,

it's straight away only weekdays? Only weekdays. Only weekdays. But now it's going to be in May. I thought in the last couple of years it's changed where any bank to any bank is the same day. It's an hour. It's the same day, but not immediately.

It's the same day, but yeah, one to two hours. Whereas bank to same bank is immediate. Is immediate. Right. But it wouldn't have worked on the weekend or public holidays. No. And so when this changes in May, is it going to be immediate for any bank

or is it going to be an hour? It will be the same day. It was the same day, David. Yeah. That's so good. Yeah, I guess within an hour. Oh, but then people on Trade Me are going to expect stuff straight away, aren't they?

I know. I love letting them linger a bit. You know what I mean? I'm still thinking about it. I've transferred it right now. Why isn't it here? Yeah. Credit card, debit card, automatic payments, bill payments, direct debit or direct credit transactions, which are currently

on business days, will go on any day. Wow, so everything, basically. Because I was always like, why on a holiday or a weekend does it not work? Because it's not like someone sitting there going like, oh, Hayley wants to transfer money to Carl Fletcher. Yeah, it's all automated, right? No, it's all computer.

So what is the computer? Having a Queen's birthday? Having an Easter weekend? Having a day off. Well, it's important we do let computers celebrate, Hayley, because when they overthrow us and become our overlords, we don't want them remembering back on a time where we wouldn't let them have a day off.

You're quite right there. That's true, yeah. You're quite right there. That's why everybody I want you today, not just to walk away from your computer and let it put itself into sleep mode. I want you to push the back of it and turn power off and then tomorrow reboot it, you know,

just to give it a little bit of actual downtime, not just sleep mode in the background. You actually should do that. I remember taking my laptop years ago to JB Hi-Fi, whatever, to get it fixed. I was like, this, like, everything is wrong with it. He was like, when was the last time you turned it off? And I was like, I don't know,

when you guys turned it on to sell it to me. And he was like, no, you've got to turn them off because, you know, they just like sleep all the time. You know, but they update all the time and restart. No, he was like, you've got to give it a little hard reset. I don't know if that's the thing. Yeah, no. I heard somebody, I read somewhere,

some computer person was putting it into layman's terms. They're like, well, imagine you took a wrong turn, you're driving somewhere and you took a wrong turn and you get yourself so awfully lost. And so when you turn your computer off and on again, it's basically putting it back at the start of the journey before it made any wrong turns. So next time it won't take the same wrong turn it did last time.

Stunning. It's a great way of putting it, isn't it? I wish I could sometimes do that. If your computer's just been driving for like months, and trust me, it's been through some dirty neighbourhoods, it might need to go back to the start of its journey when it was an innocent little computer and hadn't seen all that filth.

Hayley was nodding just then. You can't unsee what I've seen. But your computer can, so do it the favour and give it a hard restart. Oh, I just realised I did the whole show with my headphones on backwards, so. Well, that means the show's backwards then, isn't it? We're going to have to play this in reverse.

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